Rather frustratingly, the temperatures here are refusing to drop yet again despite the fact that the sky appears to be fairly clear. In fact, we were very close at 8pm yesterday evening (which was about 4 hours ago) to getting an official air frost at Edinburgh Airport before the temperature at that station, then jumped back up, but I can only assume that this is probably due to there being a bit too much of a breeze.
What has happened though, is that I can now confirm that yesterday was the first completely dry day at both Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh since 17 November, thus ending a run of 21 consecutive days without a single completely dry day at both of those stations. Having said that though, there hasn't really been any massive rainfall amounts on any of those days and because of that, our rainfall totals for this month so far are only around average for this stage of December according to the 1981-2010 averages.
Meanwhile, the temperature at midnight was 3.0°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank, 1°C at Edinburgh Airport and 2.1°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.